FergyTech

As I grow into my adult clothes, I some times find it a little embarrassing to introduce myself as the all mighty and feared “FergatROn” hailing from the great planet of Cybertron. Well, it really depends on what circle I’m doing it with. Since the dawn of my online adventures, I’ve always had a cool user handle. Don’t get me wrong, I love my /nick, but I’m doing more and more online business nowadays and telling a possible business partner that my Twitter or Identica account is “@FergatROn” is starting to get a little awkward.

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I followed Mathias Teugels around a bit (on Identica) and some how found myself at a Flash hero generator site; so I took some time out to create the official/unofficial Fedora Project super hero — The Fedora!  I was limited in some of the tech accessories I could give him, but maybe someone from the art team will run with it.

Make your own Hero at www.cpbintegrated.com/theherofactory.  Be aware that you can’t choose the hero’s name during the generation process.   Create your hero and post a link here.  I’d love to see what you come up with.

Attributes

So; with every hero creation, you must have some specs or a history for your character.  I will not satisfy that requirement today.  Just know that he’s a heavy Linux user and his distribution of choice is… *drum roll please*… Fedora.

I still don’t know the full story about this GNOME Do program, but so far it’s the best thing… besides slice bread…  you just can’t beat that!  I’ve heard about this package when Fedora 9 was released.  I installed it on my laptop, but never really learned, nor took the time, to understand how it works.  Recently, there was a blog post (LifeHacker) that highlighted the new “Docky” theme, which gives your Linux box a certain popular MAC component.  I’m not going to take a sip of the hateraide, this Docky component is awesome and it’s given my Fedora 10 a new lease on life!

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